Chapter 701 U: Infinite Events (20)
Otto Octavius is a very pure researcher who specializes in nuclear physics. Although he cannot be said to be the world's top, he can be said to be the top in the industry. However, as a middle-aged man, although he has not yet married and had children, he still has a lot of pressure.
Although Otto is a native of New York State, he was born far away from downtown New York City. His family situation cannot be said to be rich, but can only be said to be poor. Only his father works at home, but he drinks every day and occasionally commits domestic violence. The economic situation can be imagined.
Otto is extra talented in studying. He relied on doing questions to get into the physics department of the best school. After graduation, his research path was also smooth. With the publication of several articles, he became a top nuclear physicist in the industry.
However, he still needs to face many practical problems. If he wants to work in New York City, he either rents or buys a house. In the past, Otto has always rented a house.
However, the rent in New York City can be said to be daunting. After renting a house for so many years, Otto was shocked to find that most of his savings were given to the landlord, and this would not work.
As he gets older, getting married and starting a family is an inevitable proposition. However, if he still rents a house after marriage, a single apartment will definitely not meet his needs. If he rents a family suite, the rent is really daunting. In this case, it is better to save money to buy a small apartment and then replace it with a bigger house later.
After working for so many years, Otto has some savings and has made some friends. So about a year ago, he bought an apartment in a good location in New York City, and bought a new car this year.
Of course, no matter how rich he is, he is not rich enough to buy a New York apartment in full, so his house and car are mortgaged.
Once he has a car loan and a mortgage, his originally decent income seems a bit meager. Other researchers can rely on their professional knowledge. Take part-time jobs in some private research institutes to earn some extra money, but Otto specializes in nuclear energy research. There are not many research institutes in New York City that do nuclear energy research, not to mention that his research direction is biased towards fusion research, which is even less.
When Otto was worrying about money, a man who claimed to be the head of the nuclear physics research team of the solar system construction plan came to him. Although the name of this project sounded like a scam, the high salary they offered made Otto very excited.
After conducting in-depth investigations and asking various colleagues, Otto found that this project was actually true. Humans had actually entered the stage of solar system development, but he didn't know it.
In order to keep up with the times and to reduce the burden of the loan he was carrying, Otto successfully joined this project team.
As soon as he entered the project team, Otto knew that he was in the right place. First of all, the researchers here include the famous Dr. Reed, and Dr. Ethan, who has also made great achievements in the field of physics. Together with Otto, it can be said that the lineup is luxurious.
Moreover, what this project team is studying is even more incredible. It is the top priority of the solar system development plan, that is, how to extract the energy of the sun as a clean energy for human use.
Colleagues with the top scientific research level, laboratories with the top hardware facilities, and the highest salary in the industry, is there a better job than this? Otto felt that he was so lucky.
But soon, he found out that there was a reason why this project would give him such a high salary.
First of all, Dr. Reed was not a full-time researcher in this project group. He was also responsible for near-Earth exploration and Mercury development. Dr. Ethan was not a full-time researcher either. He had to go to Stark Tower to help build the Mercury base and robots.
In this way, Otto was the only one who participated in the research of this project full-time. What's more, after Otto came, these two people disappeared. It was considered good to come to the laboratory once a week. The burden of all experiments fell on Otto.
Let alone developing a Dyson sphere by one person, even if one person developed one of the parts, the workload was desperate. After Otto took over the project, his hair fell more than his salary, and dark circles grew faster than his salary. In just one month, he was exhausted.
What's more, Otto originally complained that the assistants in the laboratory were unprofessional, but later, the biological experiment project team borrowed more than a dozen assistants, and the Mercury development project team borrowed more than a dozen. There were more than 30 laboratory assistants in total, and they were soon transferred away, leaving Otto alone in the entire project team.
Otto thought that the project leader might be targeting him, but later he asked his colleagues and found out that the situation of all project teams in the entire plan was similar to his. Now they were extremely short of people, and some projects had been suspended due to lack of manpower.
The burden of the development of human civilization fell on Otto's shoulders. More importantly, he didn't want to be cut off. For the generous salary, he had to bite the bullet and do it.
In terms of scientific research, Otto is very conscientious. He will never allow any experimental data to go wrong. Even if the results are slow, he must ensure rigor. However, this kind of work is really not something that can be done by one person. After working hard for a month, Otto realized that this is not possible.
A person can only have two hands, and when a project team needs the project leader to wash the test tubes in person, these two hands cannot be used anyway.
The so-called market demand forces technology upgrades. Otto found that he must first upgrade his own technology to make himself able to do the work of eight people, so that he can survive in this project team and complete the research.
Otto is indeed a genius. Genius refers not only to his IQ, but also to his thinking. He thinks that although a person has only two hands, he can artificially add a few more hands. Artificial exoskeleton is a good choice, even if the tentacles on his back can help him wash the test tubes.
Guided by this idea, Otto began to develop mechanical tentacles. He originally wanted to use a mecha like Iron Man to fix the tentacles on his back. The first phase of the experiment went smoothly and the tentacles were developed, but the problem was that the flexibility was too poor.
Exoskeletons can never be as precise as real arms. Whether they are controlled by brain waves or remote controls, there will be a certain delay and the movements are not in place. Such tentacle exoskeletons cannot meet Otto's requirements.
However, the pressure from above is getting greater and greater, and the requirements for the progress of the experiment are getting higher and higher. Otto was really forced to do nothing. He thought that human limbs are controlled by nerves. Then, if the exoskeleton tentacles are directly controlled by nerves like the limbs, perhaps there will be no problem of insufficient flexibility.
Thinking of this, Otto began to upgrade the tentacles, but he was not a neurologist and didn't know how to connect the tentacles to himself. The project was stagnant until he saw a name among the researchers in other project teams, that is, Stephen Strange.
As the world's most famous neurosurgeon, Strange definitely has the ability to install tentacles on Otto's body. Therefore, Otto contacted Strange through the head of the laboratory. After hearing Otto's idea, Strange was amazed.
On a sunny afternoon, Otto, Connors, Pym and Strange gathered together. They planned to test whether mechanical tentacles can really be controlled by human nerves. If so, wouldn't it be a good solution to the current shortage of manpower?
As expected, the operation was very successful. Due to the existence of Pym, the mechanical tentacles developed by Otto can be enlarged and reduced at any time by using Pym particles. When not in use, they become tattoos on the back, and when used, they are enlarged into mechanical tentacles.
The problem of flexibility has been completely solved. The mechanical tentacles directly controlled by nerves are as flexible as human fingers. Since they can be extended and bent at will, they can get anything in the laboratory at any time, so it is very convenient. Now they are considering large-scale production.
However, growing four more hands could not relieve the overwhelming workload of the project team that Otto was in charge of. Moreover, since he knew that he had four more hands, the requirements for the progress of the experiment became even more outrageous.
"This is simply inhumane! Even the car that transports the experimental materials has to be reversed into the warehouse by myself! ... Today! This morning! The raw material warehouse called me and said that their car broke down and asked me to go and get the raw materials myself. My God, two devices are running and I can't leave at all..."
"This kid!" Otto pointed at Spider-Man who was supporting him and said, "This damn kid! He said he was going to Stark Tower to help! Listen to what he said! He thinks Tony Stark needs help?!!"
Otto showed an unbelievable expression and said, "He doesn't think I need help. He thinks Tony Stark, who owns hundreds of thousands of mechas and robots, needs help!!"
"After he left, the warehouse kept urging me to get the raw materials quickly, otherwise the raw materials in this issue would be... The materials were distributed to other project teams. I drove my own car to the streets of New York, and found that the traffic jam was longer than the opening speech of the host of the fucking midnight radio station!!! "
"I shouldn't be waving four tentacles and running around the streets of New York??? Then tell me, how can I get from Ridgefield to East New York??? Huh??? "
Otto was obviously a little collapsed. He walked forward, poked Iron Man's shoulder with his finger and said: "And you! You are just like these little bastards. You would rather spend three hours flying around New York every day than spend a little time worrying about the future of mankind! !"
"Damn the future of mankind! Am I the only one responsible for the future of mankind? What are you doing? Going to college? Dating? Or going home to hide in bed and read those damn peach comics? ! "
"Dr. Otto, calm down. I just have something to do with Mr. Stark today. I swear, I will never leave early in the future... You are going to East New York to get experimental materials, right? I will go right now! Right now!" Spider-Man said as he stepped back, while the other two Spider-Men looked at each other, not understanding why things turned out like this.
At this time, Otto's eyes had already fallen on the two of them, and he asked, "Are you two also Spider-Men?"
"Uh... We are, but we are not, just... maybe..." Peter said hesitantly.
He had already heard that the Spider-Man who defended Dr. Otto was actually the Spider-Man at this time point, that is, the future Peter, and one of them was the past Peter, and the other was the Peter of another universe at the past time point.
"I don't care who you are. Listen, if you can participate in the research, get out of here and go to the lab right now. If you can't, get out of my sight right now. Don't let me see you. You'd rather hang around in the sky over New York than do your job!" Otto's attitude was almost like pointing at Spider-Man's nose and cursing, but the two Spider-Men looked at each other and still didn't refute.
"Wait, what's going on?" Stark glanced at the three Spider-Men, and then said, "You are not imitators, but Spider-Men?"
Just then, Otto received a call. Peter was busy explaining to Stark what the multiverse and parallel universe were, so he didn't hear what Otto was saying, but soon, Otto came back and said:
"Since you are all Spider-Men, you should all have scientific research capabilities. The experiment has reached the most important stage. Now, immediately, follow me! I need an assistant!"
"No... Wait a minute, we can go with you, but don't use this method, no!! Don't!!!!"
Iron Man stood on the roof, watching Otto waving four tentacles, one tentacle wrapped around a Spider-Man, and the remaining tentacle hung on the wall of the glass curtain wall like a spider silk, and then the four of them swung together.
"Oh!!!!!!!"
Three almost identical screams came from a distance, waking up Zhang Parker in the ward.
He turned his head to look at the window, and then saw that Spider-Man, who was wrapped by the tentacles, was rising and falling between the high-rise buildings in New York.
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